Academic Style Adopting an academic style Introduction It is important when you write your assignments at Queen Mary that your writing can be, according to Clanchy and Ballard (1992), cited in Jordan (1997, p.244): ‘objective‘ not ‘subjective‘, ‘intellectual‘ not ‘emotional‘, ‘serious‘ not ‘conversational‘, ‘impersonal‘ not ‘personal‘, and ‘formal‘ rather than ‘colloquial‘. One way you can … Continue reading Academic Style